Disseminated BCG in HIV infection. |
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| Authors: | J Ninane A Grymonprez G Burtonboy A Francois G Cornu |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium. |
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| Abstract: | A boy, born to a mother with AIDS related complex, was immunised with BCG on the 10th day of life. At the age of 4 months he presented with a local enlarged lymph node, fever, hypotonia, and diarrhoea. Mycobacterium bovis, BCG strain, was grown from the lymph node and cerebrospinal fluid; this proved dissemination. |
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